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Operation PUSH: Florida Prison Strike

Updates

February 5th, 2018

Florida prisoners held in a 'Closed Management' unit join Operation Push by boycotting commissary. These prisoners are locked up 23 hours a day, are not allowed any movement around the camp or work assignments and are subject to constant communication restrictions. Prisoners who speak out about conditions in FL prisons are sent here so that the FDOC can keep them quiet and maintain the lie that their prisons are functioning well, their slaves are happy, and there is not a resistance movement building inside.

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Background

On January 15th, 2018 Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Florida incarcerated workers began a work stoppage around three primary demands:

Payment for our labor, rather than the current slave arrangement

An end to outrageous canteen prices

Reintroduction of parole incentives to lifers and those with Buck Rogers dates

In addition to the three primary demands, we are also fighting to:

• Stop the overcrowding and acts of brutality committed by officers throughout FDOC which have resulted in the highest death rates in prison history.• Expose the environmental conditions we face, including extreme temperatures, mold, contaminated water, and being placed next to toxic sites such as landfills, military bases and phosphate mines (including a proposed mine which would surround the Reception and Medical Center prison in Lake Butler).• Honor the moratorium on state executions, as a court-ordered the state to do, without the legal loophole now being used to kill prisoners on death row.• Restore voting rights as a basic human right to all, not a privilege, regardless of criminal convictions.